Slavery: Oxford Readers by Stanley Engerman English Hardcover Book 9780192893024

Description: Item specificsCondition:Hardcover Ex Library Good ConditionPublication Year:2001Format:HardcoverLanguage:EnglishISBN-13:9780192893025UPC:Does not applyISBN:9780192893025EAN:9780192893025Product DetailsSynopsisThe book has no illustrations or index. This new Reader draws on a range of documentary sources to show the origins, history, and realities of slavery and the slave trade. Exploring the economic, cultural, and political role of slavery, the volume shows the similarities as well as the differences in different times and places. Whilefocusing primarily on the Americas, the volume extends to a consideration of slavery in other societies in the classical world, Africa, Asia, and the contemporary world. With over 150 selections, varying from one paragraph to several pages in length, the volume ranges widely, from internationalslave trade regulations and the individual records of slaveowners, to legislative debate concerning the emancipation of slaves. The volume aims to show the diversity of human experiences of slavery, and explains the causes of both the ending as well as the origins of slavery. Covering many aspectsof slavery, the volume considers the ways in which slavery has been justified and attacked, the operations of slave societies, and the experiences of those living in them. Selections are drawn from a wide variety of sources, such as biblical and philosophical discussions, the writings of slaves,slaveowners, abolitionists, economists, lawyers, and historians. In addition, the volume includes selections from many leading historians and economists studying slavery and emancipation.This text draws on a range of documentary sources to show the origins, history, and realities of slavery and the slave trade. Exploring the economic, cultural, and political role of slavery, the volume shows the similarities as well as the differences in different times and places. While focusing primarily on the Americas, the volume extends to a consideration of slavery in other societies in the classical world, Africa, Asia, and the contemporary world. With over 150 selections, varying from one paragraph to several pages in length, the volume ranges widely, from international slave trade regulations and the individual records of slaveowners, to legislative debate concerning the emancipation of slaves. The volume aims to show the diversity of human experiences of slavery, and explains the causes of both the ending as well as the origins of slavery. Covering many aspects of slavery, the volume considers the ways in which slavery has been justified and attacked, the operations of slave societies, and the experiences of those living in them.With over 150 selections, this new Reader draws on a range of documentary sources to show the origins, history, and realities of slavery and the slave trade. Exploring the economic, cultural, and political role of slavery, the volume shows the similarities as well as the differences across many diverse societies. While focusing primarily on the Americas, the volume extends to a consideration of slavery in other societies: the classical world, Africa, Asia, and the contemporary world. Selections range widely, from international slave trade regulations and the individual records of slaveowners, to legislative debates concerning the emancipation of slaves. Selections include writings of those enslaved as well as free members of society, along with extracts from the works of many leading historians and economists. With editorial introductions explaining the important areas of debate, this volume reveals the true diversity of human experiences of slavery.Product IdentifiersISBN-100192893025ISBN-139780192893025eBay Product ID (ePID)1913583Key DetailsNumber Of Pages506 pagesSeriesOxford ReadersFormatUK-PaperbackPublication Date2001-05-17LanguageEnglishPublisherOxford University Press, IncorporatedPublication Year2001Additional DetailsCopyright Date2001IllustratedNoDimensionsWeight26 OzHeight1.1 In.Width6.1 In.Length9.3 In.Target AudienceGroupCollege AudienceClassification MethodLCCN2001-021706LC Classification NumberHT871.S53 2001Dewey Decimal306.3/62/09Dewey Edition21ContributorsEdited byRobert Paquette, Seymour Drescher, Stanley EngermanTable Of ContentIntroductionMeaningThe BibleAristotle: PoliticsAristotle: EthicsCicero: De OfficisThomas Hobbes: LeviathanBaron de Montesquieu: Spirit of the LawsJean Bodin: The Six Books of a CommonwealeFrancois Voltaire: A Philosophical DictionaryDenis Diderot: EncyclopedieThomas Jefferson: Notes on the State of VirginiaImmanuel Kant: Science of RightJuan Francisco Manzano: Letter to Domingo del Monte, 25 June 1835Friedrich Neitzsche: Beyond Good and EvilJerome Blum: Lord and Peasant in RussiaDavid Brion Davis: The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, 1770-1823Eugene D. Genovese: Roll, Jordan, RollSir Moses I. Finley: Ancient Slavery and Modern IdeologyRichard Hellie: Slavery in Russia 1405-1725Pierre Bonnassie: From Slavery to Feudalism in South-Western EuropePaul Freedom: The Origins of Peasant Servitude in Medieval CataloniaDavid A. E. Pelteret: Slavery in Early Medieval EnglandSuzanne Miers and Igor Kopytoff: Slavery in AfricaJohn Thornton: Africa and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic WorldThe Origins and Methods of EnslavementThe BibleSt. Augustine: The City of GodBishop Ratherius of Verona: Praeloquia 935-937 ADJames Boswell: Life of JohnsonH.J. Nieboer: Slavery as an Industrial SystemWinthrop D. Jordan: White over BlackEdmund S. Morgan: American Slavery, American FreedomRichard Hellie: Slavery in RussiaOrlando Patterson: Slavery and Social DeathBernard Lewis: Race and Color in IslamFields: Slavery, Race, IdeologyJohn Thornton: Africa and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic WorldDavid Eltis: Europeans and the Rise and Fall of SlaverySlave LawsThe BibleDigest of JustinianRichard Hellie: Muscovite SocietyRichard Hellie: The Reign of SovereignCode Noir 1685William Blackstone: Commentaries on the Laws of EnglandThomas D. Morris: Southern Slavery and the Law 1619-1860Danish Slave Code 1733Codigo Negro 1789Cuban Slave Law 1842Somersett Decision 1772Barbados Laws: Excerpts from 1661Rio Branco Law 1871Joaquim Nabuco: Abolitionism: The Brazilian Antislavery StruggleT.R. Cobb: An Inquiry into the Law of Negro Slavery (1858)Massachusetts Code 1641Virginia Code 1705The Babylonian LawsThe KoranThe Slave TradeElizabeth Donnan: Documents Illustrative of the Slave Trade to AmericaJohn Newton: The Journal of a Slave Trader 1750-4Ottobah Cugoano: Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil of Slavery (1787)Parliamentary PapersJean Baptist Labat: Nouveau VoyageOlaudah Equiano: The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah EquianoSir Thomas Fowell Buxton: The African Slave Trade and its RemedyHamoa: Cuba-Chinese 1812 ContractMarchesa Iris Origo: The Merchant of PratoPhilip D. Curtin: The Atlantic Slave Trade: A CensusMartin Klein: Woolf and Sereer of SenegambiaHerbert S. Klein: The Middle PassageDavid Eltis: (Forthcoming on total slave trade)James L. Watson: Transactions in People: The Chinese Market in Slaves, Servants, and HeirsPhilip D. Curtin: Abolition of the Slave Trade from SenegambiaDavid Murray: Odious Commerce: Britain, Spain, and the abolition of the Cuban Slave TradePaul E. Lovejoy: Transformations in SlaveryAlfons van der Kraan: Bali: Slavery and the Slave TradeDavid W. Galenston: Traders, Planters, and SlavesDavid Eltis: Economic Growth and the Ending of the Transatlantic Slave TradeHerbert S. Klein: Economic Aspects of the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic Slave TradeRuth Mazo Karras: Slavery and Society in Medieval ScandinaviaClive Moore, Jaqueline Leckie and Doug Munro: Labour in the South PacificStuart Schwartz: Sugar Plantations in the Formation of Brazilian SocietyRobert William Fogel: Without Consent or ContractCh''ing-Hwang Yen: Coolies and MandarinsClaude Meillassoux: The Anthropology of SlaveryFlourishing Business (''The Economist'' 21.09

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